This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

An overgrown and abandoned tuberculosis ward resides in the midst of a quaint modern neighborhood.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

Site of the creepy house used in Lucio Fulci's "The House by the Cemetery."

This memorial garden is the final resting place of many beloved pets including that of a famous explorer.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

A crumbling stone stable and carriage house are all that remain of a manse that was once filled with Egyptian artifacts.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

The secluded beach getaway from Wes Anderson's dreamy summer romance.

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

This storybook New England home is actually a decommissioned lighthouse.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

Only a shrine remains at the site of the catastrophic nightclub inferno that killed 100 Great White fans.

The grand marquee of this abandoned Hawaiian theater remembers the building's elegant past.

This unassuming Massachusetts residence was built with a trap door to hide escapees on the Underground Railroad.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.